Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire For No Witness

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Every now and then an album comes along from an unknown artist, with no
dramatic story attached and no particular connection with something
newsworthy, that you feel you have no choice but to write about it
nonetheless. On the face of it, Angel Olsen is an American alternative-rock
singer without much to make her stand out. She sings and plays guitar. She
has the lank hair with fringe and pretty, semi-serious face of an indie
boy’s secret crush. Her music takes on well-worn influences: the Velvet
Underground, Joni Mitchell, Mazzy Star. She has toured with the perennially
cult American songwriter